It’s official! Noah now has 2 legal mommies! Jill is his parent under law, now and forever, amen.

I’ll post pictures tonight from home.

Once things got started, the adoption moved forward smoothly and uneventfully. But they did get started slowly.

First, I did the math of how long we still had before we needed to leave the house totally wrong. So we were scrambling at the end. Then it turned out Jill mapquested directions to the wrong address, and when she remapquested, the directions were totally different, even though it was just a different entry to the same whole-block-large building.

When we arrived, the judge had forgotten that we were scheduled for 9 am, not 9:30 when she usually begins her day. And the clerk’s office hadn’t delivered our casefiles yesterday, so she read every single solitary piece of paper in our files while we all sat around her conference table and Noah banged on the table with his teething ring toy.

But eventually everyone was ready, Noah was still being very good and charming, our wonderful attorney Melissa asked us a few questions under oath, and within 10 minutes, we had a court order that declared Jill to be Noah’s legal second parent.

In 6-8 weeks, the post office will deliver us a new birth certificate that lists me as "mother" and Jill as "parent."

And we are DELIGHTED parents.

Thanks, everyone, for all of your love and support and comments and emails and calls and love and support and love and support and love and support through all of this crazy-making journey.